What Products To Avoid When Buying Survival Supplies

When it comes to survival supplies the one thing I tell people to avoid is any product that requires fuel to make the product work.

The reason for this is simple in a disaster situation fuel will eventually run out, regardless of what type of fuel you are using, which in turn will make your survival supplies useless for you.

Examples of this would be when making a fire…

Use a magnesium flint fire starter instead of using any type of lighter that requires fuel to ignite the flame.

Eventually the fuel will run out from a lighter where a magnesium flint will continue doing its job countless times over.


If you need lighting use solar powered garden lights to lite your home, there is no fuel required.

This also goes with products that involve batteries or electricity such as radios, flashlights or cell phone chargers instead use manual crank power or solar powered ones instead.

When it comes to weapons such as firearms eventually ammo for them will run out.

Have back up weapons and hunting tools that require no ammo or reusable ammo.

Weapons such as knives which will never run out of ammo and can be made into spears.

Crossbows which are also great weapons for you can reuse the arrows. This also goes with sling shots where stones and rocks can be used as the projectiles and there is an endless supply of these.

You can also do this when planting food. Instead of focusing on getting seeds to plant crops focus on recycling foods such as potatoes. Save a few from your crop, let them spout, cut the potatoes and replant them and there you have a new batch of potatoes ready to grow.



By following these simple principles when it comes to survival supplies helps you in the long run be able to provide for yourself and family without worrying about your fuel supply or any additional products.

Norm Bettencourt